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CHANDIGARH: The enrolment for Aadhaar card has touched 99 per cent and 88.6 per cent in Union Territory of Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh respectively. The enrolment figure under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) scheme in Punjab and Haryana is 62.9 per cent and 30.1 per cent respectively so far, Keshni Anand Arora , UIDAI, Deputy Director General (Northern Region), said. "We are aiming to cover the entire population in these three states and the Union Territory by December this year," she said.

NEW DELHI: The government today said about 1.90 crore Unique Identification Numbers ( UID) or 'Aadhaar' involving country's citizens have been generated as on July 31, 2011. "As many as 1.90 crore Aadhaar numbers have been generated so far," Minister of State for Planning, Ashwini Kumar said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. Collection of biometric and demographic details of citizens for preparation of Aadhaar is undertaken by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

NEW DELHI: The 'Aadhaar' project of the Unique Identification Authority of India has a target to enroll 600 million citizens by 2014 and over 46 million enrollments have already been done, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. "The target is to achieve 600 million enrollments by 2014... As on August 11, 2011, more than 46 million Aadhaar enrolments have been done," Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. He said that department of Posts is one of the registrars of the UIDAI for the enrollment of residents.

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday said about 16.7 lakh Unique Identification Numbers or 'Aadhaar' have been generated so far across 10 States and Union Territories. As many as 16,79,549 Aadhaar numbers have been generated in these States and Union Territories, Minister of State for Planning, Ashwini Kumar said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha. Aadhaar is generated by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) by collecting biometric and demographic details of citizens.

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India has made it mandatory for banks to implement Aadhaar authentication for card transactions at merchant locations. The central bank said "all new card's present infrastructure" has to be enabled for recent security measures, including an embedded EMV chip and a mandatory PIN, besides Aadhaar validation at point of sale (PoS) terminals. Aadhaar is currently used by banks to establish identity while opening bank accounts, which can then be used to make sure that subsidy payments are routed directly to beneficiaries.

NEW DELHI: The national project to give unique identity numbers to all Indians, and enable welfare payments electronically, is now facing a snub from the very part of the government that funds it, and has been its most staunch supporter so far: The finance ministry. Two moves initiated by the banking division in the finance ministry over the past three months appear to duplicate and bypass the work being done by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The camapaign to issue Unique Identity Numbers (UID) to people under the 'Aadhaar' scheme has been progessing well in Kerala having already made 62 lakh enrollments so far, according to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy . "Kerala appears to be ahead of most other state in implementing the scheme with the state government providing all support to it", Chandy said in reply to questions in the state assembly today....

COIMBATORE: Aadhaar, the Unique Identification number concept of the Centre was well on its way to achieving its target of enrolling 600 million people by 2014, with three million already being brought under it, a top official involved in the task said here today "Enrollment, which began in September last, with 500 to 1,000 per day has been increased to 10000 per day. More number of booths will be added, increasing the numbers to one...

NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Chief Nandan Nilekani on Tuesday said Aadhaar numbers will be used for streamlining the Public Distribution System (PDS) and plugging leakages in it. "The draft food security bill clearly says that Aadhaar will be used for the enrollment into PDS because that is a very important way of eliminating ghosts and duplicates from the system," he told reporters here. He said this while responding to reports that the Food Ministry is not keen on using the Public Distribution System Network (PDSN)

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Friday decided to extend UIDAI's mandate for collecting biometrics from 20 crore citizens to 60 crore citizens, thus ending a year long turf war between the Unique ID Authority of India Chairman Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram over the mandate to collect data of Indian residents. The compromise will act as a savior for United Progressive Alliance's ambitious Aadhaar number programme. The decision is important for ruling Congress party as it enters into an election phase in many states, where Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is promising Aadhaar as a one stop solution to end corruption.